The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.

I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it.

Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.

The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan.

No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.